[numberonepal]

One of the things I really like about the retail sales tax idea is precisely that we would no longer have to be explaining all of our financial decisions to the government.

Exactly. The main point of the Fair Tax is that it gets government out of my life. My income is my business, and quite frankly, no one else's. I will take on ANY argument to the contrary. Bring it on!

[ConservativeLawyer]

The main point of the Fair Tax is that it gets government out of my life.

This is the prime reason I support the Fair Tax.

Also it has the added advantage of sharing our tax burden with foreign tourists and those who currently derive their income through illegal means. They pay when they spend.

And it will make it much more difficult for the government to raise taxes when any such increase will be obvious at the cash register.